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...among the population's successful agers, you are probably doing something right: "Having reached the age of 70 years, and you are overweight - not obese - there is no reason why you should lose weight, unless you have a condition that is associated with being overweight, such as diabetes mellitus or severe osteoarthritis...
...study found that pregnant women who drink five or more servings of sugar-sweetened drinks a week are 22 percent more likely to develop gestational diabetes mellitus, which is one of the most common pregnancy complications, according to Liwei Chen, the lead author and assistant professor of epidemiology at the Louisiana State University School of Public Health...
...exclusive. Mental disorders (including very serious illnesses such as bipolar disorder) are being increasingly recognized in children and teens. Whether, as is likely, this represents new recognition of an old phenomenon or whether ages of onset are dropping (as they are for some other medical illnesses such as diabetes mellitus type II) is still a matter of contention. In addition, in the not very distant past, many young people with mental disorders might not have made it to Harvard or indeed any college because of academic and interpersonal difficulties. With the emergence of good treatments for depression, anxiety disorders, ADHD...
...Diabetes mellitus, a disease characterized by the body's inability to make an essential blood sugar, insulin, is complicated by cell dysfunction, particularly in the retina. Wald's research examines the blood flow in the retina in the early stages of diabetes, before any retinal disease has developed...
Within only half a year of its birth, TIME featured the first scientist on its cover: Frederick G. Banting, the Canadian physician who, with Charles H. Best, extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas and finally provided a successful treatment of diabetes mellitus, until then almost always a killer. Two months later the spotlight focused on the naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, whose hunt for dinosaur and other ancient fossil remains in the Gobi Desert had fascinated the nation. In its second year, long before the id and the superego had become the chatter of the cocktail hour, TIME devoted...